Chaos and carnage are vividly vicious in Rob
Zombie’s “Lords of Salem”.
Heidi, a blonde rock chick, DJs at the local radio station, and together
with the two Hermans (Whitey and Munster) forms part of the ‘Big H Radio
Team’. A mysterious wooden box
containing a vinyl record arrives for Heidi, “a gift from the Lords”. She
assumes it’s a rock band on a mission to spread their word. As Heidi and Whitey play the Lords’
record, it starts to play backwards, and Heidi experiences a flashback to a
past trauma. Later, Whitey plays the Lords’ record, dubbing them the Lords of
Salem, and to his surprise, the record plays normally and is a massive hit with
listeners. The arrival of another
wooden box from the Lords presents the Big H team with free tickets, posters
and records to host a gig in Salem. Soon Heidi and her cohorts find that the
gig is far from the rock spectacle they’re expecting; the original Lords of
Salem are returning, and they’re out for BLOOD.

